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Provost: UNC-CH Chancellor Signed Off On Plan To Delay Tenure Chris Clemens wrote in an email obtained by The Assembly that Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to delay tenure votes for financial reasons.

BREAKING: @theassemblync.bsky.social obtained an email in which UNC-Chapel Hill's ex-provost said Chancellor Lee Roberts agreed to the Board of Trustees’ controversial move to delay tenure votes for financial reasons.

From me & @themhartman.bsky.social

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

Just learned from LinkedIn that a Heritage Foundation affiliate is now FOIA-ing (or equivalent) instructors’ syllabi to go snooping for supposed illegal DEI at state universities. It’s hard to describe how far past McCarthyism we’re headed here.

2025 AAUP/AFT Summer Institute The 2025 Summer Institute presents a crucial opportunity for AFT and AAUP members to learn how to fight back while continuing to advance our shared vision for higher education that serves our students...

many of the approximately 400 AAUP-AFT members (including contingent & grad laborers) who attended our Summer Institute also received training in mass mobilization and nonviolent direct action; we are much more than the tenured writing letters!

www.aaup.org/event/2025-a...

“The focus on monetary damages paid by the university and restrictions on campus protests and diversity policies obscures the Trump administration’s imposition of the right to interfere directly in university admissions, hiring, and promotion decisions.”

—Aaron Nisenson, AAUP Senior Counsel

Government Intrusion at Columbia Has Only Just Begun BY AARON NISENSON The Trump administration has successfully buried a key component of the Columbia settlement agreement. The focus on monetary damages paid by the university and restrictions on cam…

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/08/01/g...

Yesterday, July 31 -- Faculty & staff protested the firing of four @brooklyncollege.bsky.social faculty members in violation of their academic freedom & as retaliation for protected first amendment speech. #BCFired4 📸 by @paulfrangipane.bsky.social

Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...

AAUP Condemns Abduction and Assault of Chris Smalls The AAUP condemns the recent abduction and assault of union activist Chris Smalls by the Israel Defense Forces.

🚫AAUP CONDEMNS ABDUCTION & ASSAULT OF CHRIS SMALLS BY THE IDF🚫

"When Rutgers AAUP-AFT and other unions went on strike in spring 2023, Chris came out to Newark & supported us & our fight for dignity on the job. Chris stood with us then, and we stand with Chris now."

--Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

WE HAVE PACKED THE BOV TO SAY SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL, SUPPORT OUR PRESIDENT!!

A shout out to @aaup.org, the URI Adjunct faculty union, and the URI Professional Staff Association (PSA), a bargaining unit affiliated with the National Education Association of Rhode Island (NEARI).

You are almost always better off in a union, so join one, start one, or support one!

The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football.

🗞️ Read of the Day: a great piece on the work of Paul Boxer & the @RutgersU faculty Senate's Mutual Academic Defense Compact, the power of faculty governance, and cross-university coalitional work in resisting Trump's attack on higher ed beyond the Ivies.
https://loom.ly/J8LJSDg

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

You are fooling yourself if you think there is such a thing as a "good" agreement with somebody extorting you.
www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/07/down...

Brown's deal - no quotes because it was backdoor, with no voice or vote from faculty or students - echoes the academy's capitulation to McCarthyism. Absolutely no excuse for faculty to accept this. That's why you have a union @aaup.org ! Join, claim your voice and power. www.brownchapteraaup.org

“The recent announcement of the founding of the Commission for Public Higher Education reveals another ‘axis of power’ in the multiwebbed right-wing war on the US university.” The body entails the uni systems of Florida, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas A & M + Louisiana.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Join us THIS FRIDAY 8/1 for a Day of Action in Merten Hall (ffx campus) during the BOV meeting, 8:30am - 1pm. Tell the BOV to Stand up for Mason and Protect GMU President Washington! Pack the BOV mtg in the morning. Join our community assembly and press event at 12noon!

AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...

💥IN DEFENSE OF CUNY LAW PROF RAMZI KASSEM💥

We REJECT Rep. Elise Stefanik's baseless attacks!

"Any discipline against Kassem for his representation of Mr. Khalil would violate AAUP standards on academic freedom & tenure & the terms of CUNY’s faculty labor contract."

Read the full letter here⬇️

AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...

The @aaup.org submitted a letter to @cuny.edu leadership supporting the academic freedom & constitutional rights of Prof Ramzi Kassem in response to the outrageous suggestion by Rep. Stefanik that he be disciplined for representing Mahmoud Khalil.

Read it here:

www.aaup.org/news/aaup-le...

AAUP Letter Supports CUNY Law Professor Ramzi Kassem Yesterday the AAUP sent a letter of support for Ramzi Kassem, a professor of law at the City University of New York singled out by US Representative Elise Stefanik in a recent hearing of the US House ...

💥IN DEFENSE OF CUNY LAW PROF RAMZI KASSEM💥

We REJECT Rep. Elise Stefanik's baseless attacks!

"Any discipline against Kassem for his representation of Mr. Khalil would violate AAUP standards on academic freedom & tenure & the terms of CUNY’s faculty labor contract."

Read the full letter here⬇️

“Grad students are developing identities as scholars, learning what #academicfreedom means in their research & in the classroom & how their scholarly identity intersects w/ their extracurricular speech as citizens & community members. It is critical that we support developing these understandings.”

An Agreement That Settles Nothing BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE AAUP The Agreement between the federal government and Columbia University announced on July 24, 2025, has been presented as a settlement of Title VI violat…

❌AN AGREEMENT THAT SETTLES NOTHING❌

"Far from being legal settlement, the Agreement fulfills the Trump administration’s desire to dominate a prominent university, to diminish autonomy & to silence critical speech."

Columbia AAUP for Academe Blog

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@academemagazine.bsky.social

DOJ Investigation into George Mason Faculty Senate Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns AAUP President calls federal probe "gross misuse of power" as university faces fifth inquiry in five weeks.

“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe.

"Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Medicaid Cuts Could Damage College Student Outcomes Massive cuts to a federal health insurance program could impact the 3.4 million college students who rely on it.

🗞️ Yet another appalling consequence of cutting Medicaid that will impact our students and the wider nation (no paywall on this). https://loom.ly/pmAlzqI
#healthcare #medicaidcuts #highered
@aaup.org, @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social

Judge Removes Youngkin’s University Board Picks The ruling in favor of state Democrats will likely be appealed.

“When you peel back all the connections, it’s hard to imagine this is not orchestrated. How can faculty feel safe, not just to exercise their academic freedom, but safe in their personhood, when you have extremist board members siccing their orgs on us.”
— Bethany Letiecq, @aaupmason.bsky.social

This administration’s attacks on science will cause generations of harm. The UN just last week said countries are legally obligated to curb emissions, yet this is what we’re doing here in the US.

DOJ Investigation into George Mason Faculty Senate Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns AAUP President calls federal probe "gross misuse of power" as university faces fifth inquiry in five weeks.

“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe.

"Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Re-upping the written comments I submitted as a #GeorgeMasonUniversity alum in advance of the next #GMU BoV meeting. #EduSky

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

Insane.

The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Summer Tour of South Carolina's Legislative Process: Lowcountry · South Carolina Education Association 🌟 Attend Our FREE One-Hour Session! 🌟 Join us at a location near you to learn how state laws impact public education. In this informative session, you'll discover: ✅ The legislative process ✅ Naviga...

Tomorrow, 🎶🎸 SChoolhouse Rock rolls into Charleston! Join us, educators and supports of public education! We're with @thescea.bsky.social and lots of friends! www.mobilize.us/neasc/event/...

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